Rafe Needleman reviews mobile apps and products for fun, and picks startups apart when he gets bored. He has evaluated thousands of new companies, most of which have since gone out of business. We ...

A particular type of app is back in the news on the back of the Hong Kong protests: Mesh messaging apps that allow users to keep in touch without relying on wifi networks, cell networks, or any other ...

Twitter (now X) co-founder Jack Dorsey’s weekend project, Bitchat Mesh, unlike traditional messaging apps, offers a different way to contact your friends and family. The app doesn’t depend on the ...

IBM and the Weather Channel have a new app that sends emergency alerts from one phone to another, bypassing overtaxed mobile networks. Stephen Shankland worked at CNET from 1998 to 2024 and wrote ...

Jack Dorsey’s new Bitchat Mesh app relies on Bluetooth for messaging your friends and family. This is unlike WhatsApp, which uses the internet. The app doesn’t require users to register with their ...

Posts from this topic will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. FireChat Alerts uses mesh networks to get information to those who need it most FireChat Alerts uses mesh ...

ST. LOUIS – Mesh, a new app founded by Michael Orosz-Fagen and Stuart Ray, is revolutionizing social meetups by coordinating gatherings of strangers at local coffee shops. The app pairs four strangers ...

Co-founder of Tetrate and the co-creator of Istio and gRPC projects, Varun wants to bring positive change to the world through technology. Businesses are discovering that app modernization in a ...

How do you communicate when the government censors the internet? With a peer-to-peer mesh broadcasting network that doesn't use the internet. That's exactly what Hong Kong pro-democracy protesters are ...

Nowadays you’re swiping right and left trying to find the perfect dating app in order to meet your soulmate and not a handful of creeps — but there’s help. You’ve tried Tinder, OK Cupid and Hinge, and ...